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Lessons Learned from Petya and WannaCry Ransomware

On May 12th, 2017, the first case of WannaCry ransomware was discovered and within a day, over 230,000 machines were estimated to have been infected in more than 150 countries.  The scale and speed of this attack left the industry stunned, but ransomware is not a new phenomenon.  Ransomware has existed in one form or another for fifteen years, and to date more than 350,000 different ransomware variants have been identified.  There are some fundamental